Thursday, August 31 – 8:00pm

JESSIE T packs a punch – she’s the kind of girl you can take home to mama but she’ll also bring a bottle of tequila to Thanksgiving dinner. Jessie’s FACTOR funded debut album “Reckless Heart” was released September 2016 and produced by award-winning producer J. Richard Hutt (Northern Pikes, Tom Cochrane, Jamie Warren). She released 4 singles from this project, with the third “Helbound” reaching #100 on the BDS charts.

With the mind of a songwriter and the heart of a performer, her music walks you through finding love, experiencing heartbreak and looks at everyday human experiences from a different and more intimate perspective. This album helped solidify Jessie as a competitor in the music industry and plant her roots within Canada’s country music scene.

Whether performing live or virtually, Jessie leaves it all on the stage. Since moving from Kingston to Kitchener in 2012, Jessie has been headlining venues and festivals across Ontario, most notably performing Manitoulin Country Fest (2019), JUNO Host City Music Exchange (2019), Trackside Music Festival (2018) and KW 50th Oktoberfest alongside Dallas Smith
for a duo performance of Smith’s hit song ‘One Drink Ago’ (2018).

Jessie has also played stages alongside some of the best in Canadian country music including Paul Brandt, Jess Moskaluke, James Barker Band, The Reklaws, Michelle Wright, Adam Gregory, Steve Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons), and Beverley Mahood (LACE). Most recently, she has joined Jason Blaine ’s band as a background vocalist supporting his 2022 shows. Jessie T is releasing her highly anticipated second studio album in spring 2023. “This is the album that I’ve always wanted to release,” says Jessie, “I’m very excited for this new music to be heard and to share more of myself with all of you”.

Friday, September 1st – 8:00pm

London born and raised, Genevieve Fisher, has earned 9 top 50 hits on both Billboard’s BDS and Mediabase Canadian National Country Charts. In 2021, Genevieve achieved the most consecutive weeks on the national chart of her career. Her name entered onto the top 40, starting with the David James duet “Then There’s You”. This was immediately followed by her own solo top 40 hit “Playing Favourites.” It was also the first time that her name appeared in the top 40 with two different songs at the same time.

Genevieve has earned recognition within the Canadian Country Music scene by earning 7 Female Artist of the Year nominations as well as numerous nominations for Single of the Year and Songwriter of the Year, at the Country Music Association of Ontario Music Awards. While still in her teens, The Canadian Country Music Association recognized Genevieve’s emerging talent with her CCMA performance selection at the 2012 New Artist Showcase in Saskatoon. Her songwriting skills continue to be acknowledged by the CCMA as witnessed by her selection to perform for the prestigious Songwriters Series in 2016 and 2018. Her Indigenous background has allowed her to register 3 number 1 hits on the North American Indigenous Music Countdown chart. Genevieve has had the opportunity to perform at some of the biggest music festivals in Canada including Boots and Hearts, Havelock Jamboree, Lucknow Music In The Fields, Manitoulin Country Fest, Trackside and Indigenous Day Live. She has had, and continues to have, the privilege of writing with some of Country music’s brightest songwriters including Aaron Goodvin, Jason Blaine, Steven Lee Olsen, Patricia Conroy, Michelle Wright, Jason Massey, Jennifer Schott and many more.

Saturday, September 2 – 8:00 pm

Like so many country artists Michelle Wright cut her teeth playing six nights a week in clubs across Canada. In 1988, after teaming with Savannah Records President Brian Ferriman, Savannah Records released her first CD, Do Right By Me, in Canada, and Michelle and her band set off to tour North America. Do Right By Me was a major hit in her homeland, with seven chart singles and over 40,000 copies sold. That success opened many doors, including at the brand new Arista/Nashville label. Arista/Nashville made Michelle one of its flagship artists,
and in 1990, they released her first U.S. album, Michelle Wright. American audiences responded immediately and enthusiastically to “that girl singer from up north with the snow in her videos,” and her first single, “New Kind Of Love,” became her first Top Thirty American hit.

In 1992, Arista released Now & Then. Now & Then, which produced a total of six singles included, including “One Time Around,” “Guitar Talk,” “He Would Be Sixteen,” and the song that changed everything, “Take It Like A Man.” “Take It Like A Man,” was released in February of 1992 and in less than a year, Michelle became the first Canadian-born artist in the modern era of country music to have a Top Ten hit in America, a Number One video on CMT-USA (also for “Take It Like A Man”) and to win a major U.S. music industry award (the Academy of Country Music Top New Female Vocalist award in 1992). The song also catapulted Michelle to superstardom, receiving a total of twelve music industry awards, including the 1993 Canadian Country Music Association’s Fans’ Choice Entertainer Of The Year award and double platinum honors for Now & Then the same year. The career that followed is one that many artists dream of having. She has walked to podiums in music centers like Los Angeles and Toronto to accept more than forty major awards, including her 2011 induction into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. A total of twelve album releases have sold millions of copies and produced twenty-five Top Ten radio hits. Michelle enjoys an international career that has seen her grace concert stages across North America, Europe, Africa, South America, Australia, and Asia.

In August of 2022, BFD/Audium Nashville released Wright’s tenth studio project, Milestone. Working with producer Bob Funk (the husband of one of the newest inductees into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, Patricia Conroy), she recorded nine brand new songs, including the lead single, “Small Town. The second single, “Heartbreak Song,” lays bare the misery of surviving the end of a relationship. The song was cowritten with Texas Hills’ Adam Wakefield, who also appears in the song’s music video. Milestone showcases the distinctive musical style that has been the hallmark of her career. One of the highlights of the new release is Wright’s new recording of the classic “Take It Like A Man.”

Sunday, September 3 – 1:00 pm

Two of a Kind, is a Local Two piece Acoustic act playing classic hists ONE after Another. Rock,
Pop, Country you name it they are not afraid push the musical ceiling…

With a Combined Experience of Nearly 50 years on the LIVE circuit Mike and Tracy have been in about any Musical scenario possible. From Private parties, Clubs, Festivals to concert events they have been there…

Tracy featured on Vocals and Percussions brings vibrance and energy to the duo and keeps the beat in check.

Mike featured on Vocals and Guitar keeps the melody moving and the humor flowing.

Both are accomplished vocalist in their own right and supply Harmony in abundance!!